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Where Is the American Cardiff?
Apr. 22nd, 2010 07:50 amSure, volcanoes may be inconvenient, but ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stevegreen provides evidence, via SciFi Wire, that God is infinitely merciful: Bullet dodged: Fox kills Americanised Torchwood.
As you know, the BBC's Torchwood, unlike most other TV shows, is set in Wales.
This series-that-will-not-be raises the intriguing question "What would have been the U.S. equivalent of downtown Cardiff?"
Cardiff is the 12 largest city in the UK by population. The 12th in the States is San Francisco, which, however, certainly does not qualify as "a city that usually gets no love from TV dramas."
The next two cities on the list are Indianapolis, Indiana, and Jacksonville, Florida, either of which would do fine.
Then we get Austin, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; Fort Worth, Texas; and Charlotte, North Carolina.
Columbus is good. Anyplace in Texas should be ruled out as more interesting than anyplace in Indiana or Ohio, thanks to the lingering effects of long-dead Westerns. Too colorful. Too easy to do dead-cowboy plots. No challenge.
I'm tempted to vote down Charlotte because anyplace in the South is too colorful. But Wales has a long-assimilated population with its own special accents, so maybe there's a good parallel.
stevegreen provides evidence, via SciFi Wire, that God is infinitely merciful: Bullet dodged: Fox kills Americanised Torchwood.As you know, the BBC's Torchwood, unlike most other TV shows, is set in Wales.
This series-that-will-not-be raises the intriguing question "What would have been the U.S. equivalent of downtown Cardiff?"
Cardiff is the 12 largest city in the UK by population. The 12th in the States is San Francisco, which, however, certainly does not qualify as "a city that usually gets no love from TV dramas."
The next two cities on the list are Indianapolis, Indiana, and Jacksonville, Florida, either of which would do fine.
Then we get Austin, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; Fort Worth, Texas; and Charlotte, North Carolina.
Columbus is good. Anyplace in Texas should be ruled out as more interesting than anyplace in Indiana or Ohio, thanks to the lingering effects of long-dead Westerns. Too colorful. Too easy to do dead-cowboy plots. No challenge.
I'm tempted to vote down Charlotte because anyplace in the South is too colorful. But Wales has a long-assimilated population with its own special accents, so maybe there's a good parallel.
